Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-30
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THE REDREMER OF MAN,
Standing then, as imagine now I do
10 that Bethlehem night with an infant
Christ on the one side and the speechless
creatures OF God On the other. crv:
LOOK out how you strike the rowel into
that horses side. Take of that curbed
DIT from that bleeding mouth. Remove
that saddle from that raw back. Shoot
not Tor fun-that bird is too small for
food. Forget not to put water into the
cage of that canary. Throw out some
crumbs to those birds caught too far
north In the winters inclemercy. Arrest
that man who is making that one horse
| draw load heavy enough for three.
Rush In upon that scene where bows are
torturlDg cat or transfxing butterfly
and grasshopper. Drive not of that old
robin for her nest is mothers
/ cradle and under her wing there NAV be
three or four prima donnas of the sky in
training. And in your families and in
your schools teach the coming generation
more mercy than the present generation
mas ever shown, and in this marvellous
blole picture OF the Nativity, while you
point out to them the angel, show them
also the camel, and while they hear the
celestial chant let them also hear the
cows moan. No more did Christ show H.
terest ln the botanical world when he said,
CONSIDER the lilies" than he showed
sympathy for the archaeological when he
said, "Behold the fowls of the air. and
the quadrupedal world when he allowed
himself to be called in one place lion
and in another place lamb. Meanwhile,
may the Christ of the Bethlehem cattle
pen have mercy on the suffering stock
yards that are preparing diseased and
fevered meat for
OUR AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS,
Behold also in this Bible scene how on
that Christmas night God honored child
mood. Christ might have made his first
visit to our world in cloud, IS he will
descend or his next visit in cloud. In
what chariot of illumined vapor he
might have rolled down the sky escorted
oy mounted cavalry with lightning Of
drawn sword. Elijah had a carriage OF
fire to take him up, why not Jesus car
rage OF fire to fetch rim down?
Or, over the arched bridge of
rainbow the Lord might have
descended. Or Christ might have had
his mortality built upon earth out of the
dust OF the garden, as was Adam, in full
manhood at the start without the intro
ductory feebleness of infancy. No, no!
Childhood was to be honored by that sd-
vent. He must have child's light limbs,
and child's dimpled hand, and child's
beamipg eye, and cnild's faxen hair,
and babIhood was to be honored for ali
time to come, and cradle was to mean
more than grave. Mighty God! May
the reflection of that one child's
face be seen in all infantile faces.
Enough have all those fathers and moth
ers on hand if they have child in the
house. throne, Gro IN, C scepter,
kingdom under charge. Be careful how
you strike him on the head, jarriUg the
brain. What you say to him will be CEN
tennial and millennial, and hundred
years and thousand years will not stop
the echo and re-echo. Do not say, "It is
only child" Rather say, sit is only
sn immortal" It is only a masterpiece
OF Jehovah. II is only being that shall
outllVe sun. and moon, and star, and ages
quadrillennial. God has Infinite re-
sources and he can give presents Of great
value, but when he wants to give the
richest possible gift to q household he
looks around all the worlds and all the
universe and then gives child. The
greatest present that God ever gave our
world he gave about 1887 years ago. and
he gave it on Christmas night, and it
was Of such value that Heaven adjourned
for recess and came down and
BROKE THROUGH THE CLOUDS
to look at it, Yea, in ell ages God has
honored childhood. He makes almost
every picture failure unless there be
child either playing On the floor, or look
ing through tie window or seated On the
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was child IN Mammals kitchen that told
the great Syrian warrior where he might
go and get cured of the leprosy, which a.
his seventh plunge in the Jordan was left
at the bottom of the river. It was 10 the
cradle of leaves in which child was laid
rocked by the Nile that God called the at
tention OF history. 1t was sick child
that evoked Christ's curative sympathies
II was child that Christ set in the midst
OF the squabbling disciples to teach the
lesson OF humii.Y. We are informed
that wolf and leopard and lion shall be
yet SO domesticated that little child
shall lead them. A child decided Waterloo,
showing the army Of Butcher how they
could take short cut through the felds
when, II the old road had been followed,
the Prussian general would have come
ny tCO lStS W Save tue USStluIGS VI Eu-
rope. Il was child that decided Gettys-
burg, he having overheard two Confed-
crate generals in s conversation in which |
they decided to march for Gettysburg in
stead Of Harrisburg, and this reported to |
Governor Curtin, the Federal forces |
started to meet their opponents at Gettys- |
burg. And the child of today is to de- |
eide all the great battles, MAKE all the |
laws, settle all the destinies and usher in
the worlds salvation or destruction.
Men, women, nations, all earth and all
heaven, behold the child. Is there any
velvet SO soft as child's cheek? Is
there any sky go blue as child's eye? Is
there any music so sweet IS the child's |
voice? Is there any plume go wavy as 8
child's hsirP
Notice also that In this Bible night |
scene
GOD HONORED SCIENCE.
Who are the three wise men kneeliDg |
before the divine infant? Not Doors, not |
ignoramuses, but Caspar, Belthssar and |
Melchior, men VINO knew ali that was to |
be known. They were the Isaac Newtons |
and Herschels and Faraday's of their |
time. Their alchemy was the fore |
runner OF our sublime chemistry; their !
the mother of our magnificent |
astronomy. They had studied stars,
studied metals, studied physiology, |
studied everything. And when I see
these scientists bowiug before the beauti- |
full babe l see the prophecy Of the time |
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